Lots of talk in the media about the "controversial" dismissal of Jos Buttler yesterday. However having watched the video of what happened I'm at a total loss to understand why anyone thinks it was somehow "unsporting."

Lots of talk in the media about the "controversial" dismissal of Jos Buttler yesterday. However having watched the video of what happened I'm at a total loss to understand why anyone thinks it was somehow "unsporting."

Lots of talk in the media about the "controversial" dismissal of Jos Buttler yesterday. However having watched the video of what happened I'm at a total loss to understand why anyone thinks it was somehow "unsporting."

Any views on this?

Makes me wonder what sort of cricket Buttler (and Cook) played in their youth.Where I was brought up (Yorkshire), you'd get a (gruff) warning, and then you're on your way if you try and chance it again.Anyone who complained about such a dismissal being "unsporting" would be at best laughed at and at worst offered a bit of the old Carl Froch

Really disappointed with Cooks comments after the game.......has come across really poorly IMO.

Like every test team England push the envelope in terms of "crossing the line" and so we should, it's a professional sport FFS. But to have a whinge when you're on the wrong end of it is piss poor. No one here took kindly to Lehmans comments about Broad not walking......well I'd imagine Cook questioning the sportsmanship of Sri Lanka has gone down just as well with them.

Absolutely nothing wrong with the dismissal and it's hard to comprehend that having been warned twice Butler was still collared.

I beg to differ.Mankading is very rare in international cricket - it's 20 years since it happened in an ODI and 35 years since it happened in a Test match. It's not because batsmen aren't always scrupulopus about when they leave the popping crease but because unless they are deliberately trying to steal a run,which Buttler clearly wasn't, it is considered unsporting.If you look at it again Senanayake had virtually completed his bowling action when Buttler's bat was clearly still in the popping crease. In the second it took the bowler to stop and whip the bails off Buttler had taken perhaps a single step.You can see examples of Buttler's movements in just about any cricket match you care to watch.In this case,however,Senanayake had a point to prove because his bowling action has been queried in England.On the sub-continent it hasn't.I also contend that there is less concern about unsporting behaviour - and let's be honest downright cheating - on the sub-continent.If any English,Australian,New Zealand or South African bowler did the same his team-mates would be the first to have a go at him.*** dons tin helmet ***

No need for any tin helmet. All fair points and previous to this instance certainly, ones most of us adhere to. Not so sure the Us, Aussie, NZ etc are as scrupulously sportsmanlike as you contend however.Think most people lost sympathy with the two warnings, when do you begin to take warnings seriously ?Wouldn't like to see it repeated too often though and I do actually believe it will be a 'one-off' rather than a new trend.

It's not because batsmen aren't always scrupulopus about when they leave the popping crease but because unless they are deliberately trying to steal a run,which Buttler clearly wasn't, it is considered unsporting.

Bowler oversteps the line, but the ball knocks out the middle stump. 'No ball', cries the umpire. 'Ah' says the bowler' 'my silly mistake, nothing deliberate, I just didn't quite time the run up correctly!'. 'Righty-ho' smiles the batsman, 'fair's fair, I'll be off back to the pavilion, it would be unsporting for me to stay at the crease'.